Flying drones beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) of the operator to benefit infrastructure inspections could become legal under new proposals from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
The CAA's proposal would be critical in infrastructure inspection as it would allow visual access to hard-to-reach locations with much lower safety risk. Industries…
Campaigners’ case against the government’s decision to green light the £1.7bn Stonhenge Tunnel has been quashed by a High Court judge.
The £1.7bn A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down upgrade, which includes a 3.3km tunnel beneath the Unesco World Heritage Site as part of the 12.8km dualling project, was granted a development…
Cornwall Council will submit an addendum to its outline business case (OBC) for the A39 Camelford Bypass to the Department for Transport (DfT) to reflect that the expected cost of the new road has tripled.
The OBC for the scheme was originally submitted in 2021 but now Cornwall Council has agreed…
National Highways has begun installing two huge steel beams to be installed in a £23M project to replace a bridge that crosses the M67.
The new beams will carry utility services including water, gas and electricity, ensuring service users remain connected across a wide part of the Greater Manchester region as…
Transport for London (TfL) has appointed Costain to carry out refurbishment works on Gallows Corner Flyover and Brent Cross Interchange.
The infrastructure solutions company will carry out both detailed design and then the delivery of refurbishment works for Gallows Corner Flyover. This complex structure joins the A127 to the A12 above…
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has launched an investigation to probe whether National Highways is meeting the targets set for its £24bn Road Investment Strategy 2 (RIS2), which runs from 2020 to 2025.
RIS2’s investment plan, approved in March 2020, was originally worth £27bn and included £14.7bn worth of road…
High Speed 2 (HS2) contractors have successfully demolished a 4,000t bridge over the M42 to make way for a new twin box structure to carry the new high-speed line across the motorway.
Demolition experts from Solihull-based firm Armac removed a bridge across the motorway near the Interchange Station construction site in…
A report compiled by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) details the plethora of reasons infrastructure projects in the UK are often delayed and overbudget, including the clarity of communication between public sector clients and the contractors.
Within the report, released this week, BCG presents its studies of massive UK projects such…
National Highways has revealed that it spent £352,000 removing the unwanted infill from beneath the Great Musgrave bridge in Cumbria – almost triple what it cost to install.
The infilling of the 8.4m single span masonry arch bridge with around 1,000t of concrete was carried out by between May and July…
Tunnelling for the £9bn Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) will use the latest tunnelling technologies to overcome site, geological, water pressure and other constraints, the project’s tunnels technical director Keith Bowers told NCE.
At the end of last year, National Highways awarded the £1.34bn Tunnels and Approaches contract for the LTC scheme…
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